Morning journal and courier., 1887-06-01
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Many Interesting Things Told About
 the Members of the Class.

Many Interesting Things Told About
 the Members of the Class. The Yale 97 class book will introduce it.
 self to the public to-day. It is published in
 neat and tasty manner, free from the
 "gags" which were deemed a necessary em-
 bellishment to former like issues, and on the
 whole the best one ever issuing from the
 hands of statistician. The covers are of a pale blue tint and contain pictures of the Lawrence dormitery, Dwight hall and Ben jamin Silliman's statue. On opening the book a handsome engraving of all the pro fessors with whom this class has had some- thing to do attracts the attention. The contents of the book are very similar to former class books, but differ greatly in arrangement and show 8 desire to please the public at large as well as the members of '87. Of the occupation of the parents, twenty two are lawyers, twenty-one merchants, four teen till the soil, ten are manufacturers, eight are clergymen, eight are bankers, six are sons of merchants and six are teachers. Forty-three are sons of college graduates, of whom eight graduated at Yale. To the | class of '53 belonged the fathers of five men of 'S7, Douglass, Gillespie, Kent, James and William Mccormick; and to the class of '55 belonged the fathers of Cobb and G. Wood | ward.
 Of the residences of the members of the class only two give foreign places as their homes-one from China and one from Lon | don. The residences of the remaining 147 | members are distributed throughout twenty ! two States and one territory. Connecticut | has an unusually large share-51, or nearly | 34 per cent, of whom 16 are from New Ha- ven. New York comes next with 30, of whom are from New York city, followed by Pennsylvania (13), New Jersey (9), Illinois (8) Massachusetts CD, Ohio (5), California (4), Georgia (3), Indiana and Vermont e
 
 South Carolina, Texas, Wisconsin, Minneso- ta, Nevada, Louisiana, Missouri, Kansas and Utah send each.
 The class entered with ITO men and will
 graduate with 149 providing no one is unsuc- cessful in the coming June ordeals. The
 oldest man in the-class is 30 years and the
 youngest is 19. The average age on com
 mencement day will be g years, g months
 and IS days, just one month older than '88.
 The average height is feet 734 inches. The
 tallest man is Hand, 6 feet 21a inches, and
 the one to claim the distinction of being the shortest is Lee, who measures feet l 1ncE.
 The average weight of '87 is 152. IF pounds, and Cox with his weight of 285 pounds has the honor of being the heaviest man ever to graduate from Yale. Lee, at the other ex- treme, tips the scales with 101 pounds to his credit.
 MA Caldwell wears the largest hat, 5-S, and Coxe the biggest shoe, 12, and the biggest collar, F 1-2.
 As to the opinions of board in New Haven the answers are amusing and to the point. The large majority of the class are not carried away with it's society and the reasons why they are not would bring fushes to the fair damsels of the Elm City. As Porter Sherman said, who left college in '65, and graduated in '96, 'he saw no difference in society bellies created by the lapse of time." So says '87.
 Junior year has been the most expensive year for the class. The expenses of the course were divided as follows: Freshman year, $s34, 4,9s; sophomore, $931.91, junior, S999. s2; senior, $94s.2s. Forty-nine have kept private ''sweep" and the reasons why are multitudinous. A majority play cards, although some of them object to cards on principle. Dickens and Thackeray are the favorite authors and David Copperfeld" the most popular book. Politically the class stands: Republicans 67, Democrats 23, mug wumps 19, prohibition ?, undecided 8. Of these, 49 are protectionists' 40 free traders, and favor tariff revision.
 The thanks of the class are due to MT. George Hill, the statistician, for the hand some class book of 'S7